Andrzej Sapkowski wants 16 mil from CD Project Red

[SammyGiireal]

shikamaru317 said:

SammyGiireal said:

I was about to point this, this is why CD projekt is trying to come to an agreement. Again I understand most of us are gamers here and CDprojekt fans, but the guy who wrote the books deserves some sort of royalties it is only fair, not the whole sum but at least a few mill. That polish law makes sense it was probably created to prevent idiots from getting exploited, which is what happened here. C'mon 9.5k? He also says apparently that it wasn't for 3 games just for one.

I'm dubious of that claim personally. If that was true, he would have sued them when they announced Witcher 2 without his permission. But yeah, I agree that CDP should try and settle this amicably, if they let this go to court and he wins back the game rights from them, it kills our chances of Witcher 4, which would leave me gutted, I need Witcher 4 with Ciri as the main character so badly. 

I think the author should get a percentage and let them make W4. The author will make more money that way. It will probably even sell better than the 3rd.